Lifang Peng earned her doctoral degree in political science from Victoria University of Wellington.
Her research interests are political ideology (especially liberalism and socialism), Chinese thought, Chinese constitutional law, Chinese politics, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Her recent publications are “A Study of the History of Chinese Diaspora of New Zealand from the Perspective of Global History” (collaboration with Du Jidong, Wu Minchao, and Duncan Campbell, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies) and "Carsun Chang on Democratic Socialism: Liberalism, Social Democracy, and German Idealism" (American Journal of Chinese Studies).
In 2021, she moved to the Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen to teach Western and Chinese (ancient and modern) philosophical and political thought, as well as modern Chinese history.
